Up to three of Cheshire East Council’s seven household waste sites could close in the future, a council report has revealed.
Councillors on the environment and communities committee will be asked to give officers the go-ahead to draft a public consultation to go out next year.
It will ask the public for their views on a number of options.
And the the worst case scenario would see the borough left with just four main sites – with Middlewich, Poynton and Bollington closing.
However the council is likely to face a backlash from residents as this latest revelation comes on top of the decision to charge for garden waste collection from January.
Residents who don’t sign up to pay the annual £56 green bin charge may well opt to dispose of their garden waste at the local tip.
The report states: “It is proposed to undertake a fresh public consultation exercise with a succinct list of options for consideration, with the underlying principle of these being affordable and hence deliverable if selected.”
The council is looking at three possible options:
– retain service as is, with maintenance investment across all seven sites needed
– reduce to six core existing sites, closing Poynton, with investment to modernise where required. Introduce extended mobile HWRC provision as mitigation
– reduce to four core existing sites at Crewe, Macclesfield, Alsager and Knutsford with investment to modernise and extend where required. Introduce extended mobile HWRC provision.
The report also refers to a separate sub-option which would see the Alsager site close when a new site has been developed at Congleton.
The consultation will run for four to six weeks and is likely to start in March, although final details have to be confirmed.
The results will be reported back to the committee and considered as part of a recommendation on future household waste and recycling centre provision in the borough.
A procurement exercise would be carried out to ensure continuity of HWRC service provision after the expiry of the current contract.
The environment and communities committee meeting takes place at 10am on Thursday, September 28, at the council’s Westfields HQ at Sandbach.
Middlewich has one of the highest council tax’s, and we have nothing to show for it except the local tip, if that goes there will be more fly tipping as people can’t afford to go elsewhere, it’s disgusting the way the people of middlewich are treated it’s just a dumping ground for the local council, we get more and more houses and no provisions, where as the Congleton side get everything new bypass and new swimming pool
They are just a super inefficient council, and I am afraid to say Labour run,this does not look good with a general election on the horizon.
I am not a supporter of any political party, but please be mindful of any party who cannot even run a local council, imagine what they could do to the whole country.
Funny how Cheshire East is now closing tip sites just as it forces new taxes on to people just with green bins might I add this is a underhanded thing to make people pay the new bin tax it will just course more flytiping and what will be next you will be charged for all bins that’s what is coming this council authority has failed to look after towns you only need to look at towns like crew to see what the council do Cheshire East is short on cash so once to raise taxes but can’t do it through council tax so it does it through other means like bintaxes this is a form of tax just done underhand and sneakily but the council will end up paying more to clean up flight tipping which in turn we end up paying more so I’ve counselt attacks they need to fix the variodes and sort out anti social behaviour face before they start charging us for bins and Cheshire East once was to recycle more but this won’t encourage us to recycle garden waste will it no so it defeats the object of recycleing dont
I am a pensioner and live by whatever I can afford.
It’s hard to make ends meet.
Will the 56 pounds be wavered for the pensioners as it would be better spent on food and heating.
Hang your heads in shame at the way you have wasted our money
Cheshire East Labour councillors are responsible for a 20 million pound shortfall in their budget and are now in a desperate panic trying to balance the books . They have absolutely no idea and could not run a bath, they should have left things to the Tories who had a surplus and did not have to increase the cost of the council tax
So, we now get charged £56 to empty garden bins then close the tip sites so people have to travel further to dispose of rubbish. How can that be good for the environment? All that will happen is that fly tipping will increase, and the Council will have the cost of cleaning it up. Another master stroke!
Surely we have enough of a problem with fly tipping now, mostly due to charges and lazyness. This will add to this problem. B